Hey, been going through these build threads and at one point, you posted the gear your monk was using but I can't find it.

Can you please post it?

Also, this is a question for anyone else if they can answer it. Will the Epic Gem of Many Facets substitute for any other piece in the Abishai set? It doesn't say it can but I've seen a lot of builds with it and some pieces of the Abishai set included so I was just wondering.

Thanks.

Munkenmo wrote on Dec 11^th, 2011 at 12:32pm:

So unless I'm going to use it with the Epic Claw of Volkoor, it's almost useless to me. Thanks.

Yeah, the Raven's set is very nice on a Monk. When I finish leveling my TR monk (Dwarven Earth tactics build), my gearout will look roughly like this:

Eyes: Epic Raven's Sight
Head: Minos
Neck: Shintao Cord//Oremi's Necklace
Trinket: Epic Gem of Many Facets
Cloak: Smoke II HP
Belt: Knost's Belt//Epic Spare Hand
Ring: Kyosho's//Oremi's (Holy Burst)
Ring: Encrusted (Shocking Burst)//Warchanter's (Acid Burst)
Gloves: Epic Brawling Gloves
Boots: Madstone
Bracers: Epic Jidz Tetka
Body: DT Vestments

My ultimate plan is to get the 3-piece Abishai with Helm of Frost, Charged Gauntlets, and Scorched Bracers, but that'll take awhile. My monk is a Shintao, so the FB set pairs with crafted wraps for bosses, while the Warchanter's pairs with Alchemical wraps and Spare Hand for trash. I went with Warchanter's mainly because it bumps Kukan Do's DC without having to spend tokens on an epic slot.

That is his current setup.  When I get back to playing him I have different endgame gear setup in mind.  If you would prefer that one, let me know.  I can find my notes on it somewhere on my desk if I look I am sure.

KK, I broke them up by sets.  Set bonus is listed in the first item:



CHRONO

Helm: E Helm of frost - Yellow slot, cold resist 30, most important  3 str.

Cloak: E Envenomed cloak - Resist 5, Con 7, Green Slot.

Wrist: E Scorched Bracers - Fire resist, green slot


TOD

Neck: Shintao - Conc 15, +2 to-hit and dmg (if shintao monk you break good and evil dr, and get 15% additional threat)

Ring:  Kyoshos - Wis 6, exc str 1, holy burst.

Ring:  Encrusted - Shocking burst, +2 dmg

Belt:  Berserker - GFL - for boss fights to get the +2 dmg, spare hand for trash.


RED FENS
*This is for when the gem works on all items, had a source say jan a few months back, haven't checked since*  Wasn't done so changed.

Trinket: Gem of Many Facets - Yellow Slot, +4 to hit and dmg, 20% add threat.

Gloves: E Claw Gloves - Healing amp 30, str 6.

Goggles: E Ravens Sight - Exc Wis 2, TS, Epic will save 3 - for us wf 


CHALLENGES

Boots: Rock Boots Tier 3 - Stone Prison Guard, Earthgrab guard, Slippery Surface Immunity, Colorless Slot, Yellow Slot, Inherent acid 10 (just enough to negate about all acid dmg in game)

Hot Swapped with : Madstone, Firestone greaves, other misc boots depending on the boss fight.


Armor: Red Dragon - Flaming Burst, Sup Fire Resist, Inc Guard, Blue slot, Colorless Slot.

EPIC SLOTS
Blue: Toughness
Colorless: Con 1
Yellow: Blindness Immune
Green:+2 Good luck
Yellow: Dex 6
(Swapped slots)
Colorless: Wis 1
Green: Heavy fort



Con 8 (fill an epic slot +1)
Str 10
Wis 9 (epic slot +1)

You got everything You could want:

TS, BI immune, Fear Immune, GFL, Toughness, WF+Immune to slippery=FOM, Resist 5, 35% threat, HVY Fort (125% as a wf).

For DMG/to-hit you have:
+8 DMG, +6 to-hit, shocking burst, holy burst, fiery burst, greater shocking blow.

Guards? Well, it isn't the best, but we got some:
Incineration, Fire guard (teehee), earthgrab and stone prison.

If you have  any questions, you know where to find me.

Epoch wrote on Dec 11^th, 2011 at 6:46pm:


With the introduction of the Spare hand, and alchemical shocking burst handwraps, have you considered wearing the new belt, then hot swapping acid / cold / str rings?

i'm considering making air air (devils), air water (trash beating) and fire water wraps (lob / ma) 

most of the time it seems to me that the tier 3 spare hand for doublestrike and a non electric tod ring is going to be the way to roll.

Munkenmo wrote on Dec 12^th, 2011 at 5:19pm:



Gear setups for trash mobs are up to the player. I only post what I would be wearing in a boss fight.  That being said, I would wear spare hand for trash.  This setup was before alchemical came up.  I haven't bothered updating as I haven't played my monk in seemingly eons.  I just mentioned the tier 3 rock boots cuz they are better then E corrosion boots and I remembered them off the top of my head.

Now, with the monk wraps change - I might switch it over to acid burst on a ring.  I dunno, I would have to go through all of the new gear and wraps and shit and I am just too damn lazy to do it until I start playing my monk again.

Munkenmo wrote on Dec 12^th, 2011 at 6:57pm:


Might be better then acid burst.

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If your trinket slot is free, only a litany can go there.  So it isn't really free.  Nice try though.

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I don't know what a "e MF gem" is.

I was umming and ahhing about the RotStalker on my Monkey. I know it's not the best thing about the ring, but wiki has it that the Manslayer effect is no-go using wraps. Anyone got one and know if that's still accurate?

kum-gulp wrote on Dec 13^th, 2011 at 2:23pm:


Last I read Manslayer was a no go for everything as of U12P1.  (And, yes, it was supposed to be fixed.)

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DPS wise litany is more dmg in the long run.  Well, I don't know about earth stance, I haven't gone around to running numbers for it since the change comparing bloodstone and litany.

Earth stance it is probably more now that I think about.  I am getting behind on monks, I gotta start playing mine again  :/